Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
JOHN DRYDENWhen I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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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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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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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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