Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
JOHN DRYDENMen are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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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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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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