Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
JOHN DRYDENMen are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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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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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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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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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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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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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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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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