They live too long who happiness outlive.
JOHN DRYDENKings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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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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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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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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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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