Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDENHonor is but an empty bubble.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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