Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
JOHN DRYDENKeen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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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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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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