For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDENSatire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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