Griefs assured are felt before they come.
JOHN DRYDENNone 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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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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