Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENThey first condemn that first advised the ill.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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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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They think too little who talk too much.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN