Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
JOHN DRYDENA narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Love is love’s reward.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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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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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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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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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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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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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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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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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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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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