Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
JOHN DRYDENA man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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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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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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