Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDENLong pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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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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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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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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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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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDEN