God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENIf the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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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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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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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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