Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDENWhen a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
-
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDEN -
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.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
JOHN DRYDEN -
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
JOHN DRYDEN -
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
JOHN DRYDEN -
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN -
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
JOHN DRYDEN -
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDEN -
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.
JOHN DRYDEN