I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
JOHN DRYDENAn hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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