Order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDENNothing to build, and all things to destroy.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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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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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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