How can finite grasp infinity
Quote by John Dryden
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How can finite grasp infinity
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John Dryden Quotes
- Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.
- Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
- Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
- And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
- Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
- Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
- Beware of the fury of the patient man.
- Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
- The conscience of a people is their power.
- Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
Best Quotes
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
- A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
- His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
- I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
- To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
- If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
- I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.
- That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.