Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDENRepentance is but want of power to sin.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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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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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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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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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Merit challenges envy.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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