"But when to sin our biased nature leans,……" — John Dryden
"But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires."
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335 Quotes by John Dryden
John Dryden has 335 quotes on this site.
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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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I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.
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His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects…
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Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased,
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The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments…
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