Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
JOHN DRYDENTruth 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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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.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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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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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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