“Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 133.
“Ay, soon upon the stage of life,
Sweet, happy children, you will rise,
To mingle in its care and strife,
Or early find the peaceful skies.
Then be it yours, while you pursue
The golden moments, quick to haste
Some noble work of love to do,
Nor suffer one bright hour to waste.”
School is out (1876); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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