By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDENAnd love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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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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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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