They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
JOHN DRYDENGreat wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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The winds are out of breath.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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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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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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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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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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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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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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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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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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