The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDENErrors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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