A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
JOHN DRYDENReason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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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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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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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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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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