The winds are out of breath.
JOHN DRYDENThere’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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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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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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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.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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