Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDENIll habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
More John Dryden Quotes
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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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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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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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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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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