Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDENLong pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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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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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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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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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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