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?
JOHN DRYDENTruth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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