Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
JOHN DRYDENBut far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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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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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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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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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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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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