Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
JOHN DRYDENThey live too long who happiness outlive.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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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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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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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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