Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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.
JOHN DRYDENNever was patriot yet, but was a fool.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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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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War is the trade of kings.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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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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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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