It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
JOHN DRYDENTruth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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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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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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