Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
JOHN DRYDENHere lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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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.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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