Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDEN
JOHN DRYDEN
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
John DrydenJohn Dryden An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
John DrydenJohn Dryden No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
John DrydenJohn Dryden We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
John DrydenJohn Dryden But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
John DrydenJohn Dryden 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.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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 DrydenJohn Dryden By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
John DrydenJohn Dryden 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.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
John DrydenJohn Dryden I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
John DrydenJohn Dryden
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