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165 Quotes for 'John Dryden' in the Database.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.
Topic: Tomorrow
Source: Imitation of Horace (bk. III, ode XXIX, l. 65)
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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
Topic: Tomorrow
Source: None
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Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried;
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Topic: Treason
Source: Medals (l. 207)
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain:
Fought all his battles o'er again;
And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Topic: Vanity
Source: Alexander's Feast (l. 66)
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Topic: Vice
Source: None
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The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme!
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
Topic: Visions
Source: Absalom and Achtiphel (pt. I, l. 238)
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The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.
Topic: Wind
Source: Astroea Redux (l. 242)
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Topic: Wit
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 163)
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Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
Topic: Wit
Source: Sixth Satire of Juvenal (l. 573)
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Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
Topic: Wit
Source: To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
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You know I met you,
Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,
With all the tenderness of wifely love.
Topic: Wives
Source: Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1)
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Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe,
And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,
Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.
Topic: Wonders
Source: Theodore and Honoria (l. 217)
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
Topic: Youth
Source: Aureng-Zebe (act III, sc. 1)
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The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I
no longer belong to it.
Topic: Youth
Source: Aureng-Zebe (act III, sc. 1)
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