Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDENThe scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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