Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
JOHN DRYDENWhat precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
More John Dryden Quotes
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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