Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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If 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?
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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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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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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By education most have been misled.
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