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.
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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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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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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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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