He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDENContent with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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War is the trade of kings.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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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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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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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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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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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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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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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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While 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.
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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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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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