John Dryden ( 10 of 157 )
By education most have been misled.
By education most have been misled.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
Keen appetite
And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
Keen appetite
And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
All who (like him) have writ ill plays before,
For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,
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All who (like him) have writ ill plays before,
For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,
To execute the members of their trade.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
We spirits have just such natures
We had for all the world, when human creatures;
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We spirits have just such natures
We had for all the world, when human creatures;
And, therefore, I, that was an actress here,
Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.
'Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
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'Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings.
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
