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.
JOHN DRYDENWhen we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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