He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDENBold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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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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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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By education most have been misled.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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