Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
JOHN DRYDENOnly man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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