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 DRYDENPresence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
More John Dryden Quotes
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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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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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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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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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Seas 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.
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