While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
JOHN DRYDENFor secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
More John Dryden Quotes
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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The winds are out of breath.
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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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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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