But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDENAll heiresses are beautiful.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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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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All delays are dangerous in war.
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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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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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