Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDENBut Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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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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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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