John Dryden

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

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

Keen appetite
And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

Keen appetite
And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

Ever a glutton, at another's cost,
But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

Ever a glutton, at another's cost,
But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

For who can be secure of private right,
If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?
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For who can be secure of private right,
If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?
Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few.

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.