"When he spoke, what tender words he used!……" — John Dryden
"When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell."
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335 Quotes by John Dryden
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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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Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
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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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