A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDENMen are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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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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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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