Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDENHushed as midnight silence.
More John Dryden Quotes
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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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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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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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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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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