Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below

Quote by John Dryden

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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered...

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered...

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; honour but an empty bubble.

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; honour but an empty bubble.

All heiresses are beautiful.

All heiresses are beautiful.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked...

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked...

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery...

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery...

Love is love's reward.

Love is love's reward.

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is...

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is...

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

What all your sex desire is Sovereignty

What all your sex desire is Sovereignty

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

God never made his work for man to mend.

God never made his work for man to mend.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs...

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs...

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

No one can be reasonable and angry at the same time

No one can be reasonable and angry at the same time

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.