For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
JOHN DRYDENSatire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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