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.
JOHN DRYDENAnd love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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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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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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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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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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