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.
JOHN DRYDENThe winds are out of breath.
More John Dryden Quotes
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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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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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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