Since 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.
JOHN DRYDENFaith 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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