For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDENTruth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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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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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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By education most have been misled.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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