I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDENThere is a proud modesty in merit.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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