War is the trade of kings.
JOHN DRYDENOnly man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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