To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
JOHN DRYDENLong pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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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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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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