When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDENFor they can conquer who believe they can.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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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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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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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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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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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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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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