Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
JOHN DRYDENLight sufferings give us leisure to complain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Merit challenges envy.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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