Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDENWe can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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War is the trade of kings.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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