Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDENThus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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