The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENZeal, the blind conductor of the will.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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