War is the trade of kings.
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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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Love is love’s reward.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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