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Things Quotes by John Dryden
- Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
- Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
- Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy…
- And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful…
- All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
- I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander…
- Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
- Sometimes we see things not as they are but as we are: Love brings understanding
- By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle