None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDENAll things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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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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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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