The winds are out of breath.
JOHN DRYDENOld as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
More John Dryden Quotes
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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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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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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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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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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