Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
JOHN DRYDENA man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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By education most have been misled.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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