War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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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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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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