Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDENIf passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
More John Dryden Quotes
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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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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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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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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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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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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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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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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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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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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