The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDENSecret guilt is by silence revealed.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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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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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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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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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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