If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
JOHN DRYDENA 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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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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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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