We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDENAll objects lose by too familiar a view.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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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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