Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
JOHN DRYDENIf 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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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 thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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