Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDENThose who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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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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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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