And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDENRepentance is but want of power to sin.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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By education most have been misled.
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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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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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