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.
JOHN DRYDENFor what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
More John Dryden Quotes
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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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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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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By education most have been misled.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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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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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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