They say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDENIf passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
More John Dryden Quotes
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Merit challenges envy.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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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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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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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.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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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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