Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
JOHN DRYDENNot sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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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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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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