Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDENIf thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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