A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
JOHN DRYDENFor secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
More John Dryden Quotes
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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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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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Merit challenges envy.
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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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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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