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May Quotes by John Dryden
- Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
- For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
- We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
- I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.
- Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.
- Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface…
- Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.
- Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For…
- Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
- A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea…
- Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are…
- Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
- Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
- Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
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