We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDENHe invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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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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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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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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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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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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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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By education most have been misled.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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