Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDENThe bravest men are subject most to chance.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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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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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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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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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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