We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDENMany things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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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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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDEN






