Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDENConfidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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