They say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDENWelcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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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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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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