If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDENFor secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
More John Dryden Quotes
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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