All objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDENAll objects lose by too familiar a view.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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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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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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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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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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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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