Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDENDeath ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
More John Dryden Quotes
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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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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War is the trade of kings.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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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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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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