Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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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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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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War is the trade of kings.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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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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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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