Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
JOHN DRYDENTake not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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