We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDENTrust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Merit challenges envy.
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