Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
JOHN DRYDENGreat souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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