Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDENLet 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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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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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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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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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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