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 DRYDENI am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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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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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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