Order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDENHappy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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