Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
JOHN DRYDENForgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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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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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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