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Sense Quotes by John Dryden
- 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…
- He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
- Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
- It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that…
- And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
- Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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