Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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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.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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