He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
JOHN DRYDENHe who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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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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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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