Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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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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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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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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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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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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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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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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