If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
JOHN DRYDENLove and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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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.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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