For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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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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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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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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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.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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