When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDENIf you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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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 DRYDEN