Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
JOHN DRYDENReason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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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.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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