I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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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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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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