I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDENSelf-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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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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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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