Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDENIf all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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