Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDENVirtue is her own reward.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Merit challenges envy.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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