Griefs assured are felt before they come.
JOHN DRYDENBut how can finite grasp Infinity?
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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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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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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