But how can finite grasp Infinity?
JOHN DRYDENParting is worse than death; it is death of love!
More John Dryden Quotes
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Order is the greatest grace.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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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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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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