Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDENSome of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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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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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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