Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDENPoliticians neither love nor hate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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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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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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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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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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