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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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDEN






