O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDENHim of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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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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God never made his work for man to mend.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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