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«Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Genius | Keywords: wrought
«Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: bankrupt
«There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Humility | Keywords: averse, modesty, resolved
«For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: An Age, The Stage
«True fops help nature's work, and go to school - to file and finish God Almighty's fool»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: fop, fops, God Almighty
«A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: narrow mind
«Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: prodigious
«Fortune, that with malicious joy, Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleas'd to bless»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: oppress
«She hugg'd the offender, and forgave the offense: Sex to the last»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: forgave, offense
«The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Nature | Keywords: gape, gaped, gapes, gaping, testified

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