Pity melts the mind to love.
JOHN DRYDENTruth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Love is love’s reward.
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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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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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