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.
JOHN DRYDENSince a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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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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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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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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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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