Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDENTime glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
More John Dryden Quotes
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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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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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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