The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDENAmong our crimes oblivion may be set.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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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 think too little who talk too much.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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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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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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