And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
JOHN DRYDENErrors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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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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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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