Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDENHushed as midnight silence.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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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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The winds are out of breath.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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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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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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