Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDENTruth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
More John Dryden Quotes
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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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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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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The winds are out of breath.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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