All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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