Cadence Quote by John Dryden Download Open image “Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.” — John Dryden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cadence Harsh Lines Rugged Shining Wit
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Steep are the seas and savaging and cold In broken waters terrible to try; And vast against the winter night the wold, And harbourless… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“Straight is the line of Duty, Curved is the line of Beauty, Follow the straight line, thou shall see. The curved line ever follow… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ Survey the whole nor seek slight faults… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves on a… — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly true with… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks;… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
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