Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDENThe sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDEN