Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
JOHN DRYDENSatire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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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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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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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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