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| John Dryden
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. All heiresses are beautiful. All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. All objects lose by too familiar a view. And all at Worcester but the honour lost. And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. Beware the fury of a patient man. Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. But though Heaven made him poor, with reverence speaking, He never was a poet of God’s making; The midwife laid her hand on his thick skull, With this prophetic blessing – Be thou dull; Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. Even victors are by victories undone. For while my former flames remain within, Repentance is but want of power to sin. 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. 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. He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. If you have lived, take thankfully the past.In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. Love is love's reward.Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. Resolv’d to ruin or to rule the state. Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before! Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall,
Strike through and make a lucid interval.The conscience of a people is their power. The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. The true amphitryon. There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know. War is the trade of Kings. When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. |
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