Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
JOHN DRYDENDeathless laurel is the victor’s due.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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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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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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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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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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