Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDENPride – Lord of human kind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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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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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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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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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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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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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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