Pity melts the mind to love.
JOHN DRYDENThe secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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