All objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDENBy education most have been misled.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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