Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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By education most have been misled.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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