We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDENNor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Love is love’s reward.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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