Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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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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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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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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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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