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John Dryden Inspirational Quotes (290)

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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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The wretched have no friends.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
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The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?
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Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Not to ask is not be denied.
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The greater part performed achieves the less.
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A coward is the kindest animal 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight.
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You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Parting is worse than death it is death of love!
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The Fates but only spin the coarser clue The finest of the wool is left for you.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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