God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENBeauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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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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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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