The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDENAll empire is no more than power in trust.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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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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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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