None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDENAn horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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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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