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.
JOHN DRYDENThose who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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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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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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