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.
JOHN DRYDENShame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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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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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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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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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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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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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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