None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDENA man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Some 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.
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