Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENGreat wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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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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Merit challenges envy.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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