Order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDENFew know the use of life before ’tis past.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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By education most have been misled.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Truth 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.
JOHN DRYDEN






