He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDENDeath ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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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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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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