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JOHN DRYDEN For that can power give more than food and drink,
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JOHN DRYDEN The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I
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JOHN DRYDEN To take up half on trust, and half to try,
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JOHN DRYDEN For friendship, of itself a holy tie,
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JOHN DRYDEN Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDEN Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
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JOHN DRYDEN The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDEN Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
JOHN DRYDEN Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
JOHN DRYDEN Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDEN Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin
JOHN DRYDEN Fortune befriends the bold.
JOHN DRYDEN For they conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN Successful crimes alone are justified.
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JOHN DRYDEN Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:
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JOHN DRYDEN All objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDEN Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDEN Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDEN Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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JOHN DRYDEN We lov'd, and we lov'd as long as we could
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JOHN DRYDEN Ever a glutton, at another's cost,
But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
JOHN DRYDEN Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDEN She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
JOHN DRYDEN Not to ask is not be denied.
JOHN DRYDEN He's a sure card.
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Unsha...
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At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
JOHN DRYDEN A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
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The power of beauty I remember yet,
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In being mad, which none but madmen know!
JOHN DRYDEN Keen appetite
And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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JOHN DRYDEN And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
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JOHN DRYDEN Happy the man, and happy he alone,
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JOHN DRYDEN Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lie...
JOHN DRYDEN Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
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And their own web from their own entrails spin;
And w...
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To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
JOHN DRYDEN Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
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Of earth restored to the long labouring ark;
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If still our reason runs another way,
That private ...
JOHN DRYDEN Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail,
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JOHN DRYDEN Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
JOHN DRYDEN Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
JOHN DRYDEN Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows
Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
JOHN DRYDEN Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration.
JOHN DRYDEN God never made His work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies,
To please the fools, and puzzle all the wis...
JOHN DRYDEN Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
JOHN DRYDEN When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
JOHN DRYDEN The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDEN This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his
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JOHN DRYDEN Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDEN He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
JOHN DRYDEN Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere
Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,
Are ...
JOHN DRYDEN At every close she made, th' attending throng
Replied, and bore the burden of the song:
So jus...
JOHN DRYDEN The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme!
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
JOHN DRYDEN Whatever he did, was done with so much ease,
In him alone 'twas natural to please.
JOHN DRYDEN Creator Venus, genial power of love,
The bliss of men below, and gods above!
Beneath the slidi...
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Assumes the god,
Affects to nod,
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JOHN DRYDEN Whatever is, is in its causes just.
JOHN DRYDEN Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDEN The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd:
Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.
His preac...
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The carrier's not commission'd to expound;
It speaks ...
JOHN DRYDEN A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDEN When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
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JOHN DRYDEN Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,
Fallen from his high estate,
And welt'ring in his blood;
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JOHN DRYDEN A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
JOHN DRYDEN He made all countries where he came his own.
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JOHN DRYDEN The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees,
Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.
Th...
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This is the porcelain clay of human kind,
And t...
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JOHN DRYDEN And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
JOHN DRYDEN She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.
JOHN DRYDEN Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
JOHN DRYDEN And all to leave what with his toil he won,
To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN He raised a mortal to the skies;
She drew an angel down.
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JOHN DRYDEN We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDEN They think too little who talk too much.
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Who think too little and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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JOHN DRYDEN War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDEN Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN Love is love's reward.
JOHN DRYDEN Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
JOHN DRYDEN But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
JOHN DRYDEN Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
JOHN DRYDEN The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun,
Is Nature's eye.
JOHN DRYDEN Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
JOHN DRYDEN Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
JOHN DRYDEN The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
JOHN DRYDEN There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and
stupidity. And I am unsure about the un...
JOHN DRYDEN When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted...
JOHN DRYDEN Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe,
And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,
Surpa...
JOHN DRYDEN The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of bre...
JOHN DRYDEN Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried;
Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN Trust on and think To-morrow will repay;
To-morrow's falser than the former day;
Lies worse; a...
JOHN DRYDEN Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chi...
JOHN DRYDEN She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.
JOHN DRYDEN And all to leave, what with this toil he won, / To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased w...
JOHN DRYDEN And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN