Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
JOHN DRYDENIf thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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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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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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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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