John Dryden Quotes About Pain
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How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!
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But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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