All delays are dangerous in war.
JOHN DRYDENGreat wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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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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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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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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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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