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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden
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Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
John Dryden
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…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky
John Dryden
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He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.
John Dryden
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Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.
John Dryden
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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
John Dryden
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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.
John Dryden
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Dead men tell no tales.
John Dryden
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
John Dryden
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
John Dryden
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
John Dryden
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
John Dryden
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When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.
John Dryden
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
John Dryden
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts
John Dryden
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
John Dryden
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master
John Dryden
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But love's a malady without a cure.
John Dryden
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I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
John Dryden
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Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
John Dryden
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He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
John Dryden
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden
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Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
John Dryden
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Fortune confounds the wise,
And when they least expect it turns the dice.
John Dryden
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Hushed as midnight silence.
John Dryden
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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.
John Dryden
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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.
John Dryden
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Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.
John Dryden
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
John Dryden
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
John Dryden
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
John Dryden
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Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
John Dryden
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
John Dryden
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Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth.
John Dryden
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The Jews, a headstrong, moody, murmuring race.
John Dryden
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With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care.
John Dryden
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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.
John Dryden
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
John Dryden
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Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.
John Dryden
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The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.
John Dryden
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And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
John Dryden
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We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.
John Dryden
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
John Dryden
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You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
John Dryden
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Merit challenges envy.
John Dryden
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
John Dryden
