And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
JOHN DRYDENAll, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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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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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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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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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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The winds are out of breath.
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