Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDENThere is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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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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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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