He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDENOf all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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