For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDENHonor is but an empty bubble.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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