Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
JOHN DRYDENBold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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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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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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