Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDENThe scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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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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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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The winds are out of breath.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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