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Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.


John Dryden


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Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below
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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
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Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
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And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
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Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
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Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
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Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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God never made His work for man to mend.
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
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Whatever he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please.
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Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the slidi...
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Whatever is, is in its causes just.
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Lord of human kind.
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A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
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Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; ...
JOHN DRYDEN
A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
JOHN DRYDEN
He made all countries where he came his own.
JOHN DRYDEN
And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive ...
JOHN DRYDEN
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
JOHN DRYDEN
The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees. Th...
JOHN DRYDEN
Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And t...
JOHN DRYDEN
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN
Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
JOHN DRYDEN
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.
JOHN DRYDEN
Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
JOHN DRYDEN
And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN
He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.
JOHN DRYDEN
Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands, And, with his compass, measures seas and lands...
JOHN DRYDEN
Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring...
JOHN DRYDEN
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
JOHN DRYDEN
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDEN
They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will ...
JOHN DRYDEN
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, c...
JOHN DRYDEN
But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
JOHN DRYDEN
Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be ...
JOHN DRYDEN
Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
JOHN DRYDEN
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDEN
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love is love's reward.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
JOHN DRYDEN
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN
And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
JOHN DRYDEN
Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
JOHN DRYDEN
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
JOHN DRYDEN
Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
JOHN DRYDEN
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
JOHN DRYDEN
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
JOHN DRYDEN
There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the un...
JOHN DRYDEN
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted...
JOHN DRYDEN
Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpa...
JOHN DRYDEN
The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of bre...
JOHN DRYDEN
Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; a...
JOHN DRYDEN
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chi...
JOHN DRYDEN
She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.
JOHN DRYDEN
And all to leave, what with this toil he won, / To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased w...
JOHN DRYDEN
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN
When rattling bones together fly, / From the four corners of the sky.
JOHN DRYDEN
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below
JOHN DRYDEN
To live at ease, and not be bound to think.
JOHN DRYDEN
A mob is the scum that rises utmost when the nation boils
JOHN DRYDEN
To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.
JOHN DRYDEN
Even victors are by victory undone
JOHN DRYDEN
Sighed and looked, and sighed again.
JOHN DRYDEN

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