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Quotes by John Dryden
“ Fairest Isle, all isles excelling,
Seat of pleasures, and of loves;
Venus here will choose her dwelling,
And forsake her Cyprian groves. ”
“ Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. ”
“ Be kind to my remains; and oh defend,
Against your judgment, your departed friend! ”
“ I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... ”
“ By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow. ”
“ Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. ”
“ Music is inarticulate poesy ”
“ Like a led victim‚ to my death I'll go‚
And‚ dying‚ bless the hand that gave the blow. ”
“ There is a pleasure sure, In being mad which none but madmen know. ”
“ I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. ”
“ The sword within the scabbard keep‚
And let mankind agree. ”
“ He was exhaled; his great Creator drew
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. ”
“ Lord of yourself, uncumbered with a wife. ”
“ Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. ”
“ Words, once my stock, are wanting to commend
So great a poet and so good a friend. ”
“ Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. ”
“ Whatever is, is in its causes just. ”
“ Genius must be born, and never can be taught. ”
“ Here lies my wife:here let her lie!
Now she's at rest, and so am I. ”
“ Men met each other with erected look,
The steps were higher that they took;
Friends to congratulate their friends made haste,
And long inveterate foes saluted as they passed. ”
“ Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. ”
“ Look round the habitable world: how few
Know their own good‚ or knowing it‚ pursue. ”
“ They say everything in the world is good for something. ”
“ This is the porcelain clay of humankind. ”
“ Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care
To grant, before we can conclude the prayer:
'''Preventing angels met it half the way,
And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.''' ”
“ O gracious God! how far have we
Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy! ”
“ A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow. ”
“ A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Ill habits gather by unseen degrees —
As brooks make rivers‚ rivers run to seas. ”
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