For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDENHere lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDENFame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDENOf all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDENI’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 DRYDENIll habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDENIf you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDENTrust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDENThe secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDENLucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENThe love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENSeas 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 DRYDENIf passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDENBut love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDENShakespeare 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 DRYDENAll things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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