"A just and lively image of human representing,……" — John Dryden
"A just and lively image of human representing, its passions and humours and the changing of fortune to, which it is subject for the delight and instruction of mankind."
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335 Quotes by John Dryden
John Dryden has 335 quotes on this site.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
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Not to ask is not be denied.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure,…
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against…
— James A. Baldwin
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When you are through changing, you are through.
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
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