Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
JOHN DRYDENMighty things from small beginnings grow.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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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.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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