Virtue is her own reward.
JOHN DRYDENThey live too long who happiness outlive.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Love is love’s reward.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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