Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDENOnly man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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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 man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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