No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDENPity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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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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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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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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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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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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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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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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By education most have been misled.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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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.
JOHN DRYDEN