Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
JOHN DRYDENMore liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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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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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDEN