Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDENSweet is pleasure after pain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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