Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDENFor Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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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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The winds are out of breath.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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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.
JOHN DRYDEN