For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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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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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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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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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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