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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For they can conquer who believe they can. by John Dryden

For they can conquer who believe they can.

John Dryden
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. by John Dryden

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

John Dryden
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one... by John Dryden

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

John Dryden
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts by John Dryden

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

John Dryden
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master by John Dryden

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

John Dryden
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures. by John Dryden

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

John Dryden
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Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. by John Dryden

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

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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Beware the fury of a patient man. by John Dryden

Beware the fury of a patient man.

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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He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor,... by John Dryden

He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.

John Dryden
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I am as free as nature first made man, by John Dryden

I am as free as nature first made man,

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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enligh... by John Dryden

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden
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When a man's life is under debate, by John Dryden

When a man's life is under debate,

John Dryden
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs o... by John Dryden

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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Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, by John Dryden

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,

John Dryden
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When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; by John Dryden

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;

John Dryden
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monar... by John Dryden

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

John Dryden
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Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as gro... by John Dryden

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden
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