All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDENThe conscience of a people is their power.
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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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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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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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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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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