Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDENSweet is pleasure after pain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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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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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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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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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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