Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
JOHN DRYDENA good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
More John Dryden Quotes
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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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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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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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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