More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
JOHN DRYDENBoldness is a mask for fear, however great.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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