We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDENTreason is greatest where trust is greatest.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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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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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the 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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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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