Virtue is her own reward.
JOHN DRYDENVirtue is her own reward.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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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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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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By 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.
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