The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDENGo miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
More John Dryden Quotes
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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If 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?
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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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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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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.
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