Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDENLet grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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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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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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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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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Pity melts the mind to love.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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