If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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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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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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