We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDENFor your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
More John Dryden Quotes
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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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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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Love is love’s reward.
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