He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
JOHN DRYDENWe first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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By 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.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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By education most have been misled.
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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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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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