Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDENA good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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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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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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War is the trade of kings.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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