Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDENFor your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Virtue is her own reward.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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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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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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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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