Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
JOHN DRYDEN
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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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 things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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