None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDENShame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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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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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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