All delays are dangerous in war.
JOHN DRYDENTruth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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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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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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