Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
JOHN DRYDENI am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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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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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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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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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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