Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENFaith 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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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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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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By education most have been misled.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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