God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENAll authors to their own defects are blind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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