Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDENThere is a proud modesty in merit.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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By education most have been misled.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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