Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
JOHN DRYDENSculptors 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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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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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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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.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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