"Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps……" — John Dryden
"Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ."
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John Dryden
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335 Quotes by John Dryden
John Dryden has 335 quotes on this site.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
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Not to ask is not be denied.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure,…
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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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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All heiresses are beautiful.
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More Censure Quotes
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one of 101 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although…
— Giacomo Casanova
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding…
— Adam Clarke
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the…
— Joseph Addison
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
— Alexander Pope
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of…
— William Gilmore Simms
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to…
— Alexander Pope
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of…
— Tryon Edwards
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
— Alexander Pope
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