For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
JOHN DRYDENFor truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
More John Dryden Quotes
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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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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