He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDENOld age creeps on us where we think it night.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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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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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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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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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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