None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
JOHN DRYDENHim of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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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.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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