Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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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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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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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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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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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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