More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
JOHN DRYDENBy education most have been misled.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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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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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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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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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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