If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
JOHN DRYDEN
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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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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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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