Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDENDeathless laurel is the victor’s due.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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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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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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