A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDENSilence in times of suffering is the best.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The winds are out of breath.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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A 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.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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