Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
JOHN DRYDENTime glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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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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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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