All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDENTake not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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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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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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