Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDENFame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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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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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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