What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDENConfidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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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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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Love is love’s reward.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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