God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENAll flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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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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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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