Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Quote by John Dryden

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And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

And plenty makes us poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from...

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from...

To die is landing on some distant shore.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Even victors are by victory undone

Even victors are by victory undone

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an...

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and...

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and...

War is the trade of kings.

War is the trade of kings.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor...

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor...

For they conquer who believe they can.

For they conquer who believe they can.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he...

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he...

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; honour but an empty bubble.

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; honour but an empty bubble.

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

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

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

All heiresses are beautiful.

All heiresses are beautiful.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.