He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
JOHN DRYDENNone but the brave deserve the fair.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love is love’s reward.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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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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