For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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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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.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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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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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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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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