Pride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDENTomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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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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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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