Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
JOHN DRYDENThe sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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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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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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