Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
JOHN DRYDENMany things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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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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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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