Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDENWhen a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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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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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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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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Hushed as midnight silence.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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