He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDENI saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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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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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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