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 DRYDENAnd write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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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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Virtue is her own reward.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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