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.
JOHN DRYDENIf the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
More John Dryden Quotes
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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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.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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