Griefs assured are felt before they come.
JOHN DRYDENI never saw any good that came of telling truth.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They think too little who talk too much.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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By education most have been misled.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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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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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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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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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN