For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDENLove is love’s reward.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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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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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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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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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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