Since 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.
JOHN DRYDENPlots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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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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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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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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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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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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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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