Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
JOHN DRYDENLove and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
More John Dryden Quotes
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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