Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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By education most have been misled.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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