Pity melts the mind to love.
JOHN DRYDENReason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
More John Dryden Quotes
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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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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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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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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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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