Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDENKeen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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