The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDENSelf-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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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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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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