When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDENBut far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Love is love’s reward.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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