Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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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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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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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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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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