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.
JOHN DRYDENHim of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Merit challenges envy.
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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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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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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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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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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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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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