He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDENThey live too long who happiness outlive.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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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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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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