John Dryden Quotes
I have a soul that like an ample shieldCan take in all, and verge enough for more.
John Dryden
Quotes to Explore
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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
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Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure;Rich the treasure;Sweet the pleasure;Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off; I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra.
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All things are hush'd, as Nature's self lay dead,The Mountains seem to nod their drowsy head;The little Birds in dreams their Songs repeat,And sleeping Flowers, beneath the night-dew sweat;Even Lust and Envy sleep.
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There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
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If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
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Burn daylight.
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Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate,And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore;Long labours both by sea and land he bore.
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Lord of humankind.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.
John Dryden
