Order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDENLove is love’s reward.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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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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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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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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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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