As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDENDeathless laurel is the victor’s due.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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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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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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