Maxioms by John Dryden
Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
