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Quote by John Dryden
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by h

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. – 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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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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People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures. – Proverb

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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. – Jane Austen

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In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in. – Proverb

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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. – Chinese Proverb

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The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. – Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 199

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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. – Herbert Croly

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. – Lewis Mumford

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