Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENDeath ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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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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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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By education most have been misled.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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