Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDENAll objects lose by too familiar a view.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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