But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDENThey think too little who talk too much.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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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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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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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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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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