But how can finite grasp Infinity?
JOHN DRYDENAll flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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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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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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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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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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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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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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