They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDENThe love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
More John Dryden Quotes
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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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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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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