All objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDENA happy genius is the gift of nature.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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By education most have been misled.
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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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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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