Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
JOHN DRYDENAll things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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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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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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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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All heiresses are beautiful.
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