Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDENIf the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love is love’s reward.
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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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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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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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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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