When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John DrydenFortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
John DrydenMere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.
John Dryden