John Dryden on grace
John Dryden239 quotes“Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.”
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
John DrydenJohn Dryden At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
John DrydenJohn Dryden O freedom, first delight of human kind!
John DrydenJohn Dryden What passion cannot music raise and quell!
John DrydenJohn Dryden He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The winds are out of breath.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Politicians neither love nor hate.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
John DrydenJohn Dryden As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
John DrydenJohn Dryden More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
John DrydenJohn Dryden
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Kevin HartKevin Hart Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.
Lou HoltzLou Holtz The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.
Joan of ArcJoan of Arc [Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.
Joan of ArcJoan of Arc Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.
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