Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDENBy education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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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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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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