The bravest men are subject most to chance.
JOHN DRYDENWar seldom enters but where wealth allures.
More John Dryden Quotes
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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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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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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