A happy genius is the gift of nature.
JOHN DRYDENAnd 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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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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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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