A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
JOHN DRYDENHonor is but an empty bubble.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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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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And plenty makes us poor.
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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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The conscience of a people is their power.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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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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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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