Top 30 All For Love By John Dryden Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About All For Love By John Dryden

#1. Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

John Dryden

#2. Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

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#3. Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

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#4. Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

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#5. How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.

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#6. But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

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#7. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

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#8. He made all countries where he came his own.

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#9. Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

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#10. Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

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#11. God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

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#12. Politicians neither love nor hate.

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#13. Love and Time with reverence use,
Treat them like a parting friend:
Nor the golden gifts refuse
Which in youth sincere they send:
For each year their price is more,
And they less simple than before.

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#14. Where'e're I go, my Soul shall stay with thee:
'Tis but my Shadow I take away ...

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#15. And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

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#16. Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

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#17. My love's a noble madness.

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#18. 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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#19. Love is love's reward.

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#20. Calms appear, when Storms are past;
Love will have his Hour at last:
Nature is my kindly Care;
Mars destroys, and I repair;
Take me, take me, while you may,
Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

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#21. You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

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#22. Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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#23. And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

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#24. Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

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#25. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

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