But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDENHim of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Love is love’s reward.
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War is the trade of kings.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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