Virtue is her own reward.
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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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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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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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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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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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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