For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDENHe is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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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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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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