For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDENLong pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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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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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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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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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDEN