Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
JOHN DRYDENThe conscience of a people is their power.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Merit challenges envy.
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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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All delays are dangerous in war.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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