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.
JOHN DRYDENWar is the trade of kings.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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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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Merit challenges envy.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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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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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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