They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDENHe was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
More John Dryden Quotes
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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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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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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