Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDENThus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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