For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDENMany things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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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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