There is a proud modesty in merit.
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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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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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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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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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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