Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
JOHN DRYDENThe winds are out of breath.
More John Dryden Quotes
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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