Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDENOrder is the greatest grace.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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War is the trade of kings.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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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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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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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.
JOHN DRYDEN