Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDENPoliticians neither love nor hate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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