War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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