Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDENTime glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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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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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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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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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Merit challenges envy.
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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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