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 DRYDENIf the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
More John Dryden Quotes
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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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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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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By education most have been misled.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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