But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDENBeauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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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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Love is love’s reward.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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