Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDENRevenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
More John Dryden Quotes
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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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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They think too little who talk too much.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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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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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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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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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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