John Dryden on grace
John Dryden239 quotes“Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.”
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
John DrydenJohn Dryden For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
John DrydenJohn Dryden All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The conscience of a people is their power.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Beware the fury of a patient man.
John DrydenJohn Dryden A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
John DrydenJohn Dryden We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
John DrydenJohn Dryden None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Pity melts the mind to love.
John DrydenJohn Dryden They think too little who talk too much.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
John DrydenJohn Dryden Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
John DrydenJohn Dryden And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
John DrydenJohn Dryden At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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