For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDENWe must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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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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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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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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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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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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