God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENMuch malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
More John Dryden Quotes
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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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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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDEN






