They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDENConfidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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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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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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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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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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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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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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