Griefs assured are felt before they come.
JOHN DRYDENLucky men are favorites of Heaven.
More John Dryden Quotes
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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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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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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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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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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