Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDENSwift was the race, but short the time to run.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Happy 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.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDEN