Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDENNo king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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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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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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