Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDENA good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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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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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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