Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
JOHN DRYDENSet all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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