Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDENFew know the use of life before ’tis past.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Love is love’s reward.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDEN