John Dryden Quotes About Literature
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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But love's a malady without a cure.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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The first is the law, the last prerogative.
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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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Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Love is love's reward.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
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Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
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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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