Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDENFor secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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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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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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If 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?
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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