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.
JOHN DRYDENEvery language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
More John Dryden Quotes
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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The winds are out of breath.
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