Silence in times of suffering is the best.
JOHN DRYDEN
JOHN DRYDEN
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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 Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
John DrydenJohn Dryden They live too long who happiness outlive.
John DrydenJohn Dryden He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
John DrydenJohn Dryden
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