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Successful crimes alone are justified.
John Dryden
Successful
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden
Beauty
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
John Dryden
Today
Tomorrow
War is the trade of Kings.
John Dryden
War
Kings
Trade
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden
First
Habits
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
John Dryden
Music
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden
Life
People
Hope
Deceit
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
John Dryden
Thoughts
Words
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
John Dryden
Love
Sight
Water
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
John Dryden
Argument
Word
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden
Fate
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
John Dryden
Love
Mind
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
John Dryden
Nature
Law
Self
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
John Dryden
Anger
Thoughts
Mind
Resentment
Will
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
John Dryden
Anger