Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
JOHN DRYDENIll habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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