Pity melts the mind to love.
JOHN DRYDENWhen a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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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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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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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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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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