We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDENKings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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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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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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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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