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.
JOHN DRYDENWe must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN