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.
JOHN DRYDENIf thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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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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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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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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They think too little who talk too much.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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War is the trade of kings.
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