I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDENWhat passion cannot music raise and quell!
More John Dryden Quotes
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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