Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENI saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
More John Dryden Quotes
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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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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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Virtue is her own reward.
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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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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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