Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDENAll flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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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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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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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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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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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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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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