If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
JOHN DRYDENSo the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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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 sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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