Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDENPity melts the mind to love.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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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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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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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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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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