We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDENHe look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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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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And plenty makes us poor.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDEN






