Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDENA happy genius is the gift of nature.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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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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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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