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.
JOHN DRYDENWhile I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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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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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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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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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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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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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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