God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENThe conscience of a people is their power.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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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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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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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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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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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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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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