None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
JOHN DRYDENImagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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