I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDENThey say everything in the world is good for something.
More John Dryden Quotes
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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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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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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