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.
JOHN DRYDENSince every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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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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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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