He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDENMore liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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