I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDENThe bravest men are subject most to chance.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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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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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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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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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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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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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.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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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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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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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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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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