Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDENSilence in times of suffering is the best.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Merit challenges envy.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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