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.
JOHN DRYDENVirtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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