Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
JOHN DRYDENVirtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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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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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Merit challenges envy.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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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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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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