The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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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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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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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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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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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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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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