As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDENOld age creeps on us where we think it night.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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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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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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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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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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