Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
JOHN DRYDENYouth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
More John Dryden Quotes
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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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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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Love is love’s reward.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDEN






