Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDENPresence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
More John Dryden Quotes
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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