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John Dryden Inspirational Quotes (290)

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My love's a noble madness.
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Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.
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Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play namely, of Time, Place, and Action.
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When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day.
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Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end.
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I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.
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Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
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Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
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A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.
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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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Second thoughts, they say, are best.
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He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.
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