Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
JOHN DRYDENDancing is the poetry of the foot.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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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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