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Quotations by author » John Dryden
British Poet, Dramatist and Critic of Literacy, 1631-1700
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For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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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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For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
Forgiveness
Fortune befriends the bold.
Fortune
Fortune, that with malicious joy, Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleas'd to bless
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Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the slain.
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony / This universal frame began: / From harmony to harmony / Through all the compass of the notes it ran, / The diapason closing full in Man.
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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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God never made his work for man to mend.
God
God's pampered people whom, debauched with ease, / No king could govern, nor no God could please.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Happiness
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved me better than his life; he lost it for me
Love
He raised a mortal to the skies; / She drew an angel down.
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He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, and whistled as he went, for want of a thought
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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He who purposes to be an author, should first be a student.
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