When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDENMore liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
More John Dryden Quotes
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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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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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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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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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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