He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would search for pearls must dive below.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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I 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.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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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.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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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.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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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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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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