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 DRYDENThey, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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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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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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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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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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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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