All empire is no more than power in trust.
JOHN DRYDENIf 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?
More John Dryden Quotes
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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