We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDENNo king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Tomorrow 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.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDEN