Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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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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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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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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