Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDENNone are so busy as the fool and the knave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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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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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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