By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDENConfidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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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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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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