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.


John Dryden

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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
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Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
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Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
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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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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