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.
JOHN DRYDENTomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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