If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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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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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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