There is a proud modesty in merit.
JOHN DRYDENYouth, 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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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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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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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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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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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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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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