The bravest men are subject most to chance.
JOHN DRYDENSweet is pleasure after pain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
JOHN DRYDEN






