Honor is but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDENBold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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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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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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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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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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