Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDENImagining 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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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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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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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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