He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDENVirtue is her own reward.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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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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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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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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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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