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John Dryden

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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefo...
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Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.
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Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
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For that can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
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To die is landing on some distant shore.
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But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
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To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
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For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a colleg...
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others...
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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For they conquer who believe they can.
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Successful crimes alone are justified.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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All human things are subject to decay,
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This Fleckn...
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Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy pe...
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Nor is the people's judgement always true;
The most may err as grossly as the few.
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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi...
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what...
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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We lov'd, and we lov'd as long as we could
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For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
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The people have a right supreme
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
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For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
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Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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Not to ask is not be denied.
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He's a sure card.
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The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsha...
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
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A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
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There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.
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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mo...
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Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
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By education most have been misled.
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Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
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Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And w...
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Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
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Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
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As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The reli...
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
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Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
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Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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God never made His work for man to mend.
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Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wis...
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which...
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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At every close she made, th' attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song: So jus...
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The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
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Whatever he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please.
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Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the slidi...
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With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems...
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Whatever is, is in its causes just.
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Lord of human kind.
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The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. His preac...
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A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
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When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la ...
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Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; ...
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A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
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And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive ...
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Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
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The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees. Th...
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Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And t...
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Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
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She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.
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Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
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And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
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He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.
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Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands, And, with his compass, measures seas and lands...
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Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring...
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None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such,
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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
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War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Love is love's reward.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
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But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
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Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
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Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
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There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the un...
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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted...
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Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpa...
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The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of bre...
JOHN DRYDEN
Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; a...
JOHN DRYDEN
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chi...
JOHN DRYDEN
She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.
JOHN DRYDEN
And all to leave, what with this toil he won, / To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased w...
JOHN DRYDEN
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN
When rattling bones together fly, / From the four corners of the sky.
JOHN DRYDEN
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below
JOHN DRYDEN
To live at ease, and not be bound to think.
JOHN DRYDEN
A mob is the scum that rises utmost when the nation boils
JOHN DRYDEN
To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.
JOHN DRYDEN
Even victors are by victory undone
JOHN DRYDEN
Sighed and looked, and sighed again.
JOHN DRYDEN
I'm a little wounded but I'm not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, Then I'll rise and f...
JOHN DRYDEN