Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDENIf by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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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The winds are out of breath.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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