At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would search for pearls must dive below.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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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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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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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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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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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDEN