Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDENTrust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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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.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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