Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDENSince a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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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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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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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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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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