537 quotes
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where.
Aureng-Zebe (1676)
Whate’er he did, was done with so much ease,
In him alone 'twas natural to please.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1687)
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
Œdipus (1679)
Love taught him shame, and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
Cymon and Iphigenia (1700)
Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
Tyrannick Love (1669)
They say everything in the world is good for something.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
The Maiden Queen (1667)
A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.
Amphitryon (1690)
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
Amphitryon (1690)
This is the porcelain clay of humankind.
Don Sebastian (1690)
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.
Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton (1700)
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.
Imitation of Horace (1685)
Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,
Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
Like a led victim, to my death I'll go,
And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
I have a soul that like an ample shield
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
Don Sebastian (1690)
Of all the tyrannies on human kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Fate, and the dooming gods, are deaf to tears.
The Works of Virgil (1697)