He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
JOHN DRYDENLet grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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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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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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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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