Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
JOHN DRYDENTruth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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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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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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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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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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