The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDENLight sufferings give us leisure to complain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Love is love’s reward.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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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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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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