Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDENCourage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
More John Dryden Quotes
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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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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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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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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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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