Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDENWe first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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