They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDENSecret guilt is by silence revealed.
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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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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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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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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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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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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