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.
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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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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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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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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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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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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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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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