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.
JOHN DRYDENOrder is the greatest grace.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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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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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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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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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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