All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDENNever was patriot yet, but was a fool.
More John Dryden Quotes
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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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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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDEN