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.
JOHN DRYDENOrder is the greatest grace.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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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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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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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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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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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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