I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDENVirtue is her own reward.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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By education most have been misled.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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War is the trade of kings.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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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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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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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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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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