Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
JOHN DRYDENBut how can finite grasp Infinity?
More John Dryden Quotes
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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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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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Virtue is her own reward.
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