He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
JOHN DRYDENThus, 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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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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