Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
JOHN DRYDENWar is the trade of kings.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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 saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Love is love’s reward.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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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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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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