Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDENLong pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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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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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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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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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDEN






