Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDENConfidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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By 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.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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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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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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