For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
JOHN DRYDENWelcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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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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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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