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John Dryden Quotes: Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
         

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.


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Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.



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…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky



He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.



When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.



Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.



Dead men tell no tales.

Dead men tell no tales.



Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.



The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.



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