Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDENThe bravest men are subject most to chance.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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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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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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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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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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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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