Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDENHe is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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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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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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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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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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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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