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Last Quotes by John Dryden
- Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that…
- If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
- Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate…
- Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in…
- The first is the law, the last prerogative.
- …So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living…
- Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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