A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDENTime and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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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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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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