By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDENPlots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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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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