For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
JOHN DRYDENHappy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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