Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDENBeauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
More John Dryden Quotes
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By education most have been misled.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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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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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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