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?
JOHN DRYDENReason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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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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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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