He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDENOld age creeps on us where we think it night.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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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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