Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDENBeware the fury of a patient man.
More John Dryden Quotes
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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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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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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