Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
JOHN DRYDENBut far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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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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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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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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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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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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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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