The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDENWar seldom enters but where wealth allures.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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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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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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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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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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