He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDENThey think too little who talk too much.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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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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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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