Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDENHe is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
More John Dryden Quotes
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By education most have been misled.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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