Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDENPity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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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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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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