The bravest men are subject most to chance.
JOHN DRYDENBut love’s a malady without a cure.
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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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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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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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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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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Hushed as midnight silence.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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