The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDENSince a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
More John Dryden Quotes
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By education most have been misled.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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