He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
JOHN DRYDENGod never made his work for man to mend.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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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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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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