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One Quotes by John Dryden
- He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise…
- One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
- When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
- Better one suffer than a nation grieve.
- In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was…
- One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
- Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the…
- It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that…
- And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
- The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
- Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
- 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…
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