He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDENSelf-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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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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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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