He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDENTrust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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