“An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.”
Source: Virgil: the Eclogues
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Famous John Dryden Quotes
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
Source: The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life
“Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin
“But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.”
“For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.”
“Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.”
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir
“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”
“The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes