The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDENWhat, 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?
More John Dryden Quotes
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDEN