Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
JOHN DRYDENNever was patriot yet, but was a fool.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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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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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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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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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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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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