None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDENBut love’s a malady without a cure.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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By education most have been misled.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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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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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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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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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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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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