We by art unteach what Nature taught.
JOHN DRYDENFor Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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