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.
JOHN DRYDENIf thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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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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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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