When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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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The conscience of a people is their power.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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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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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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