Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDENOur souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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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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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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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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