Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
JOHN DRYDENThey, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
More John Dryden Quotes
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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