Silence in times of suffering is the best.
JOHN DRYDENHonor is but an empty bubble.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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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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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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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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All delays are dangerous in war.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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