Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDENMore liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
More John Dryden Quotes
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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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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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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By education most have been misled.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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