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Firsts Quotes by John Dryden
- An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
- Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the…
- Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
- When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow…
- 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…
- For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
- The first is the law, the last prerogative.
- Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.
- Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those…
- Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy…
- None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the…
- They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
- He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
- We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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