Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
JOHN DRYDENIf thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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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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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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