Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
JOHN DRYDENErrors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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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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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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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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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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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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