But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDENYouth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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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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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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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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