If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDENMighty things from small beginnings grow.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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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 happy genius is the gift of nature.
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