For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDENAn hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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