Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDENLet grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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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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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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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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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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