Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENThere is a proud modesty in merit.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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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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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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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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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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