Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would search for pearls must dive below.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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By education most have been misled.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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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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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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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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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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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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