A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDENFor all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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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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And plenty makes us poor.
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Love is love’s reward.
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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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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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