Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDENHe look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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