O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDEN
JOHN DRYDEN
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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.
John DrydenJohn Dryden 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.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Pity melts the mind to love.
John DrydenJohn Dryden They think too little who talk too much.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
John DrydenJohn Dryden Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
John DrydenJohn Dryden And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
John DrydenJohn Dryden At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
John DrydenJohn Dryden What passion cannot music raise and quell!
John DrydenJohn Dryden He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The winds are out of breath.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
Gottfried LeibnizGottfried Leibniz What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
Ada Louise HuxtableAda Louise Huxtable To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
Gottfried LeibnizGottfried Leibniz It’s a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You!
Michael BeckwithMichael Beckwith It is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work.
Ada Louise HuxtableAda Louise Huxtable Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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