Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
JOHN DRYDENHe has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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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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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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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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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All heiresses are beautiful.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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