Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENHushed as midnight silence.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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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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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Trust 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.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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