O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDENThus, 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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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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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Love is love’s reward.
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