Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
JOHN DRYDENThree poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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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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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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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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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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