He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
JOHN DRYDENFor Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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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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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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