Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
JOHN DRYDENFiction 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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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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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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