The bravest men are subject most to chance.
JOHN DRYDENBut Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
More John Dryden Quotes
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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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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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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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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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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