None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
JOHN DRYDENConfidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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