Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
JOHN DRYDENIf you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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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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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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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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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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