Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDENSatire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
More John Dryden Quotes
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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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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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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