Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
JOHN DRYDENSome 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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By education most have been misled.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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