We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDENSwift was the race, but short the time to run.
More John Dryden Quotes
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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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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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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