"My heart's so full of joy, That I……" — John Dryden
"My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad."
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335 Quotes by John Dryden
John Dryden has 335 quotes on this site.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
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Not to ask is not be denied.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure,…
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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More Extravagance Quotes
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain…
— Laozi
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
— Lady Randolph Churchill
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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their…
— Samuel Johnson
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Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.
— Umar
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The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper…
— Grover Cleveland
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
— Oscar Wilde
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does…
— Pericles
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My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It…
— Ina Garten
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The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern…
— Elihu Palmer
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The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters,…
— Friedrich Schiller
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