Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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 your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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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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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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