Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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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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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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