John Dryden on conversation
John Dryden239 quotes“Repartee is the soul of conversation.”
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
John DrydenJohn Dryden For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
John DrydenJohn Dryden We by art unteach what Nature taught.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
John DrydenJohn Dryden They first condemn that first advised the ill.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John DrydenJohn Dryden But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
John DrydenJohn Dryden So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
John DrydenJohn Dryden But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
John DrydenJohn Dryden No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
John DrydenJohn Dryden I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
John DrydenJohn Dryden
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Adrienne BailonAdrienne Bailon They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can’t hold a conversation.
Adrienne BailonAdrienne Bailon How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?
Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius Some conversations feel like a hug. Some people feel like home.
Sonika MSonika M I miss people I have never met. Conversations I have never had. Streets I’ve never walked. And love I have never made.
Sonika MSonika M Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
Dallas WillardDallas Willard That first justification given, again, the White House misleading the country about a major action the administration was taking, but the fact that they had a private conversation in which the president,
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