He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDENNever was patriot yet, but was a fool.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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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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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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