None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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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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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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