It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
JOHN DRYDENYouth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
More John Dryden Quotes
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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