When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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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The winds are out of breath.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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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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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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