Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
JOHN DRYDENFew know the use of life before ’tis past.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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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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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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