For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDENSculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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