He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDENBy education most have been misled.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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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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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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