Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
JOHN DRYDENFool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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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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