Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
JOHN DRYDENPresent joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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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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