Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
JOHN DRYDENLong pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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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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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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