For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
JOHN DRYDENIf thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
JOHN DRYDEN