There is a proud modesty in merit.
JOHN DRYDENThe secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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By education most have been misled.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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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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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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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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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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