All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDENRevenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
More John Dryden Quotes
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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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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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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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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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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