Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDENNothing to build, and all things to destroy.
More John Dryden Quotes
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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