When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
JOHN DRYDENThe trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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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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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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