Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDENPoliticians neither love nor hate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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