And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
JOHN DRYDENHonor is but an empty bubble.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Three 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.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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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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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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