O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDENGriefs assured are felt before they come.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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