Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDENCourage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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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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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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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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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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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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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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