The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDENI never saw any good that came of telling truth.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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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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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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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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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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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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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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