Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDENSure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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By education most have been misled.
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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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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Merit challenges envy.
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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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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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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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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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