But how can finite grasp Infinity?
JOHN DRYDENOrder is the greatest grace.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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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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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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