A Quote by John Dryden

When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

John Dryden

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Debate Deliberate Judge Life Life Is Long Man Too

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John Dryden
English - Poet
August 19, 1631 - May 12, 1700

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.

Friedrich Schiller

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

Thomas Middleton

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.

Edward Young

Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

Alexander Pope

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

William Shakespeare

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

Mercy Otis Warren

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

Lord Byron

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

Jonathan Swift

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.