Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDENKings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
More John Dryden Quotes
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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