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.
JOHN DRYDENPlots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
More John Dryden Quotes
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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