Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDENFor Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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By education most have been misled.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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