John Dryden
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.
They think to little who talk to much.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
How can finite grasp infinity
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year.
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
I love marriage.
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