“A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.”
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“Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?”
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
“A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...
“A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
“Pity melts the mind to love.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
Source: Poetical works
“For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
“The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes