Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDENGo miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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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They think too little who talk too much.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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