Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDENAll objects lose by too familiar a view.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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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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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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