A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDENLove reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
More John Dryden Quotes
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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By education most have been misled.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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