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 DRYDENPresent joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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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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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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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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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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