If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDENWar seldom enters but where wealth allures.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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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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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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