Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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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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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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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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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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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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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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