For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDEN
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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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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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
JOHN DRYDEN