For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
JOHN DRYDENTime and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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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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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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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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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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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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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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