Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDENLucky men are favorites of Heaven.
More John Dryden Quotes
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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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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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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