Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDENKeen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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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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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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