Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
JOHN DRYDENWhen I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
More John Dryden Quotes
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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