All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDENVirgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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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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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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