He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDENO freedom, first delight of human kind!
More John Dryden Quotes
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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