"And love's the noblest frailty of the mind." — John Dryden
"And love's the noblest frailty of the mind."
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John Dryden
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335 Quotes by John Dryden
John Dryden has 335 quotes on this site.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
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Not to ask is not be denied.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure,…
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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More Frailty Quotes
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
— Samuel Butler
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
— Seneca the Younger
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
— Albert Pike
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.
— Glen Duncan
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'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those…
— David Hume
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Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self'…
— Unknown Author
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Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual…
— Joseph Addison
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