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“For they conquer who believe they can.”
-- John Dryden
#Confidence #Believe #Literature
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“If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?”
-- John Dryden
#Party #Men #Order
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“The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.”
-- John Dryden
#Birthday #Son #Men
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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
#Determination #Fighting #Littles
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“Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.”
-- John Dryden
#Time #Simple #Years
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“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
-- John Dryden
#Inspirational #Motivational #Character
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“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
-- John Dryden
#Anger #Men #Patient
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“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
-- John Dryden
#Kings #Political #Plot
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“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”
-- John Dryden
#Dance #Feet #Dancing
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“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”
-- John Dryden
#Death #Fear #Life And Death
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“War is the trade of kings.”
-- John Dryden
#Kings #War #Trade
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“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
-- John Dryden
#Men #Worry #Care
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“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
-- John Dryden
#Love #Wise #Mind
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“Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.”
-- John Dryden
#Kings #Fighting #Empires
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“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”
-- John Dryden
#Reality #Literature
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“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
-- John Dryden
#Life #Cheating #People
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“Love is not in our choice but in our fate.”
-- John Dryden
#Love #Fate #Love Is
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“He who would search for pearls must dive below.”
-- John Dryden
#Pearls
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“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”
-- John Dryden
#Love #Life #Breakup
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“Love is love's reward.”
-- John Dryden
#Love #Philosophy #Educational
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“Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.”
-- John Dryden
#Order #Grace #Peculiar
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“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
-- John Dryden
#Fear #Mask #Boldness
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“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
-- John Dryden
#Running #Rivers #Sea
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“Successful crimes alone are justified.”
-- John Dryden
#Successful #Justified #Crime
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“Mighty things from small beginnings grow.”
-- John Dryden
#Power #Grows
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“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.”
-- John Dryden
#Men #Good Man #Want
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“Politicians neither love nor hate.”
-- John Dryden
#Love #Hate #Love Hate
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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.”
-- John Dryden
#Fate #Soul #Shields
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“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”
-- John Dryden
#I Miss You #Missing You #Years
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“Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.”
-- John Dryden
#Life #Passion #Love Is
