They that possess the prince possess the laws.
JOHN DRYDENAnd love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Order is the greatest grace.
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