By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDENOld age creeps on us where we think it night.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The winds are out of breath.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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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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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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