Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDENBut how can finite grasp Infinity?
More John Dryden Quotes
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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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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