Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDENHe is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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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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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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