When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDENNone are so busy as the fool and the knave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
JOHN DRYDEN