He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDENFor Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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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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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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