Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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