Sweet is pleasure after pain.
JOHN DRYDENThus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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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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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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