He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDENNot sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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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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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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