To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
JOHN DRYDENThey, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
More John Dryden Quotes
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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