All empire is no more than power in trust.
JOHN DRYDENHe has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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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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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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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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