Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDENThe secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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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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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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