Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENFowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
More John Dryden Quotes
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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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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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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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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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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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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