As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDENA 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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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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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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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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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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