Griefs assured are felt before they come.
JOHN DRYDENThe thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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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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War is the trade of kings.
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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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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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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, 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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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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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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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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