He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDENFor age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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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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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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