Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
JOHN DRYDENWhile I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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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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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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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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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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