God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENThe secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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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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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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They think too little who talk too much.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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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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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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