The bravest men are subject most to chance.
JOHN DRYDENWords are but pictures of our thoughts.
More John Dryden Quotes
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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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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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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