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.
JOHN DRYDENLong pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
More John Dryden Quotes
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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