If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDENWe by art unteach what Nature taught.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Thus, 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.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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