Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDENSo the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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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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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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