If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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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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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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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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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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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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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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War is the trade of kings.
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