Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
JOHN DRYDENOld age creeps on us where we think it night.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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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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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDEN