Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDENMen’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
More John Dryden Quotes
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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