Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
JOHN DRYDENSince every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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By education most have been misled.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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