Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
JOHN DRYDENThe glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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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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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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