A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDENKeen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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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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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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