Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
JOHN DRYDENBy education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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