Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
JOHN DRYDENHe look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
More John Dryden Quotes
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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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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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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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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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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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Love is love’s reward.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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