Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
JOHN DRYDENConfidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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By education most have been misled.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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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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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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