He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
JOHN DRYDENSure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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