For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDENThose who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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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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Love is love’s reward.
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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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