Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDENAll, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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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.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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