The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

In being mad, which none but madmen know!
‘The Spanish Friar’ (1681) act 1, sc. 1
And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.
‘The Spanish Friar’ (1681) act 2, sc. 2
Mute and magnificent, without a tear.
‘Threnodia Augustalis’ (1685) st. 2
Freedom which in no other land will thrive,
Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
‘Threnodia Augustalis’ (1685) st. 10
Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
‘To the Memory of Mr Oldham’ (1684)
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies,
Made in the last promotion of the blest.
‘To the pious Memory of...Mrs Anne Killigrew’ (1686) l. 1
And he, who servilely creeps after sense,
Is safe, but ne’er will reach an excellence.
‘Tyrannic Love’ (1669) prologue
All delays are dangerous in war.
‘Tyrannic Love’ (1669) act 1, sc. 1
Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
‘Tyrannic Love’ (1669) act 4, sc. 1
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
Translation of Horace ‘Odes’ bk. 3, no. 29.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Translation of Horace ‘Odes’ bk. 3, no. 29
I can enjoy her while she’s kind;
But when she dances in the wind,
And shakes the wings, and will not stay,
I puff the prostitute away.
Translation of Horace ‘Odes’ bk. 3, no. 29 (prostitute Fortune)
Look round the habitable world! how few
Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue.
Translation of Juvenal ‘Satires’ no. 10
To see and be seen, in heaps they run;