And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDENRepartee is the soul of conversation.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
JOHN DRYDEN