Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDENA man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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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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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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