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.
JOHN DRYDENFor secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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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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Merit challenges envy.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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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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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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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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