Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDENDeath ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
More John Dryden Quotes
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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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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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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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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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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