Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
JOHN DRYDENWhen a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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