Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
JOHN DRYDENPity melts the mind to love.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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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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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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