Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.


John Dryden

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Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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Successful crimes alone are justified.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
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Not to ask is not be denied.
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Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
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There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
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Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
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Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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God never made His work for man to mend.
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Whatever he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please.
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Whatever is, is in its causes just.
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Lord of human kind.
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A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
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A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
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He made all countries where he came his own.
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Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
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Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
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She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.
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Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
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And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
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He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.
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None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
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War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
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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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Love is love's reward.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
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But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
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Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
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Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
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JOHN DRYDEN
Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpa...
JOHN DRYDEN
The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of bre...
JOHN DRYDEN
Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; a...
JOHN DRYDEN
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chi...
JOHN DRYDEN
She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.
JOHN DRYDEN
And all to leave, what with this toil he won, / To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased w...
JOHN DRYDEN
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN
When rattling bones together fly, / From the four corners of the sky.
JOHN DRYDEN
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below
JOHN DRYDEN
To live at ease, and not be bound to think.
JOHN DRYDEN
A mob is the scum that rises utmost when the nation boils
JOHN DRYDEN
To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.
JOHN DRYDEN
Even victors are by victory undone
JOHN DRYDEN
Sighed and looked, and sighed again.
JOHN DRYDEN