We by art unteach what Nature taught.
JOHN DRYDENFor your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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