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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

John Dryden

Love, Fate, Choices

John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.413, Delphi Classics

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

John Dryden

Spring, Heart, Fate

1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 3.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

John Dryden

Fate, Design, Mind

John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.108

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

John Dryden

Rain, Fate, Past

John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.349

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

John Dryden

Fate, Soul, Shields

John Dryden (1717). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant”, p.37

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

John Dryden

Fate, Past, Sorrow

John Dryden (1830). “Virgil: the Eclogues”, p.248

Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long: Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

John Dryden

Life, Fate, Autumn

"Oedipus: A Tragedy".

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

John Dryden

Death, Fate, Decay

'MacFlecknoe' (1682) l. 1

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

John Dryden

Fate, Wool, Clue

John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.296

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

John Dryden

Fate, Wings, News

John Dryden (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin”, p.156

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!

John Dryden

Fate, Joy, Sorrow

When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads, Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds, Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death, Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons. Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice, Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves: Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus, While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff, And sweat with an Imagination's weight.

John Dryden

Fear, Fate, Son

"Dramatik Works".