The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENSatire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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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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