The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDENAll delays are dangerous in war.
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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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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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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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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By education most have been misled.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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