John Dryden Quotes About Nature
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Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
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By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
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To die is landing on some distant shore.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
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