Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
JOHN DRYDENFowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
More John Dryden Quotes
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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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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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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