John Dryden Quotes
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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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Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.
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So over violent, or over civil,That every man with him was God or Devil.
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Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,Fallen from his high estate,And welt'ring in his blood;Deserted, at his utmost need,By those his former bounty fed,On the bare earth exposed he lies,With not a friend to close his eyes.
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And heaven had wanted one immortal song.But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
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A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
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Music is inarticulate poesy.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
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Nor is the people's judgment always true:The most may err as grossly as the few.
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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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She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,Grows cold even in the summer of her age.
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The sword within the scabbard keep,And let mankind agree.
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T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,Is to hate traitors and the treason love.
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
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Since ev’ry 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 th' appointed place we tend;The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
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Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kindThe worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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A very merry, dancing, drinking,Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Not only hating David, but the king.