Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
JOHN DRYDENSatire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Merit challenges envy.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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