Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDENAnd love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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By education most have been misled.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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