Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
JOHN DRYDENWhat, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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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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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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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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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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