Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
JOHN DRYDENBy education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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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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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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