All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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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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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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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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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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