All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDENThe secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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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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