Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
JOHN DRYDENMerit challenges envy.
More John Dryden Quotes
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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The winds are out of breath.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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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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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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